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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Volume III

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Author
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
Title
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3
Credits
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Religion and medicine
Category
Text
eBook-No.
39962
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39962
Release Date
November 5, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.THE SEVENTH BOOK
  5. 5.CHAPTER I Of the Forbidden Fruit.
  6. 6.CHAPTER II That a Man hath one Rib less then a Woman.
  7. 7.CHAPTER III Of Methuselah .
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV That there was no Rain-bow before the Flood.
  9. 9.CHAPTER V Of Sem , Ham and Japhet .
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI That the Tower of Babel was erected against a second Deluge.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII Of the Mandrakes of Leah .
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII Of the three Kings of Collein .
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX Of the food of John Baptist , Locusts and Wild-honey.
  14. 14.CHAPTER X That John the Evangelist should not die.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XI More compendiously of some others.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XII Of the Cessation of Oracles.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIII Of the death of Aristotle .
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIV Of the Wish of Philoxenus .
  19. 19.CHAPTER XV Of the Lake Asphaltites.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVI Of divers other Relations.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVII Of some others.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII More briefly of some others.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XIX Of some Relations whose truth we fear. — TO MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND — TO MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND
  24. 24.HYDRIOTAPHIA: URNE BURIAL Or, a brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk.
  25. 25.CHAPTER I
  26. 26.CHAPTER II
  27. 27.CHAPTER III
  28. 28.CHAPTER IV
  29. 29.CHAPTER V
  30. 30.THE GARDEN OF CYRUS
  31. 31.CHAPTER I
  32. 32.CHAPTER II
  33. 33.CHAPTER III
  34. 34.CHAPTER IV
  35. 35.CHAPTER V
  36. 36.THE STATIONER TO THE READER
  37. 37.CERTAIN MISCELLANY TRACTS.
  38. 38.THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER
  39. 39.OBSERVATIONS
  40. 40.OF GARLANDS
  41. 41.OF THE FISHES EATEN BY OUR SAVIOUR
  42. 42.AN ANSWER TO CERTAIN QUERIES
  43. 43.OF HAWKS AND FALCONRY
  44. 44.OF CYMBALS, Etc.
  45. 45.OF ROPALIC
  46. 46.OF LANGUAGES
  47. 47.OF ARTIFICIAL HILLS, MOUNTS OR BURROWS
  48. 48.OF TROAS
  49. 49.OF THE ANSWERS
  50. 50.A PROPHECY — THE EXPOSITION OF THE PROPHECY
  51. 51.MUSÆUM CLAUSUM — 1. Rare and generally unknown Books. — 2. Rarities in Pictures. — 3. Antiquities and Rarities of several sorts.
  52. 52.A LETTER TO A FRIEND, Upon Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend.
  53. 53.REPERTORIUM: — ADDENDA
  54. 54.MISCELLANIES — An Account of Island, alias Ice-land, In the Year 1662. — Concerning some Urnes found in Brampton-Field, in Norfolk, Ann. 1667. — Concerning the too nice Curiosity of censuring the Present, or judging into Future Dispensations. — Upon Reading Hudibras.
  55. 55.THE PREFACE
  56. 56.CHRISTIAN MORALS
  57. 57.PART I
  58. 58.PART II
  59. 59.PART III
  60. 60.NOTES ON CERTAIN BIRDS AND FISHES FOUND IN NORFOLK
  61. 61.NOTES ON CERTAIN BIRDS FOUND IN NORFOLK.
  62. 62.NOTES ON CERTAIN FISHES AND MARINE ANIMALS FOUND IN NORFOLK.
  63. 63.ON THE OSTRICH.
  64. 64.BOULIMIA CENTENARIA.
  65. 65.UPON THE DARK THICK MIST HAPPENING ON THE 27 TH OF NOVEMBER, 1674.
  66. 66.ACCOUNT OF A THUNDER STORM AT NORWICH, 1665.
  67. 67.ON DREAMS.
  68. 68.OBSERVATIONS ON GRAFTING.
  69. 69.CORRIGENDA
  70. 70.INDEX
  71. 71.Transcriber’s Notes:

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